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A Ton of News Sites, With Images Included, Now in Geminispace Owing to NewsWaffle

Video download link | md5sum f95facff4d49e4e7a2cd39814e83fc11 News With Images Over Geminispace Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: Lots of news sites from all around the world are now fully accessible as GemText owing to new software (and a capsule running it); press reports can be viewed, with real-time updates, and moreover with images inline

THE Web has gotten its share of proxies and gateways (e.g. Invidious and Nitter); Gemini too is getting more and more of them, e.g. for YouTube videos and for GitHub repositories. I get my weather forecasts from Gemini every day, several times per day, and there are plenty of other, versatile, very good tools/capsules in Geminispace. It gets better all the time!



Months ago we wrote about capsules that convert Web sites (and news sites) into GemText, presenting them to anyone instantaneously [1, 2, 3]. There's now a news one that generates such pages, transiently, 'on the fly'...

"The choice of GitHub for hosting is tasteless because we already saw how Microsoft treats tools like YouTube-DL if someone makes a mere threat of legal action."There are news relays that lost courage and shut down. There are other capsules that became extinct, likely for copyright reasons (threats or just fears). NewsWaffle, however, seem to be different. It's basically CGI, as per today's announcement (see ongoing discussion about this announcement). NewsWaffle is Free software, albeit hosted in Microsoft's proprietary trap (Gemini proxy), and hopefully it'll last. It's a lot better than any other news proxy/relay software I've seen. It supports and presents images too, as shown in the video above (I hadn't realised this until I recorded it).

This hopefully won't be today's sole post (I spent a lot of the day publishing 10 blog posts in my personal blog), but this post represents an exciting discovery. NewsWaffle is really an amazing tool. The choice of GitHub for hosting is tasteless because we already saw how Microsoft treats tools like YouTube-DL if someone makes a mere threat of legal action.

To me, personally, what makes NewsWaffle a game-changer is the support for images.

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